Fitting in the Evening's Workout

The season for summer/early fall evening road runs is coming to a close.  I'm normally trying to squeeze a run or something into the dusky hours, but now dusk is earlier and earlier, and after Saturday it's going to be another hour earlier.  (I do some evening running, and there are some places where I'll run in the dark, but, after 2 badly sprained ankles, I don't do road runs at night anymore.)  Which is my way of saying that, with all the other stuff I had to do (transport from musical practice, transport to soccer, transport from swim practice, go shopping for Beth's birthday dinner), tonight's run just didn't happen.


I ended up with the following workout in the drizzle on the deck:

• 50 Hindu Squats (I'm being really careful with these.  Every time I start increasing my reps I've been getting lower back spasms, so I am being very careful to do them slowly and controlled with my back locked in place).
• Alternating 2 TKD patterns with 25 of each of 6 different types of pushups (Hindu, Military-shoulder width, wide, regular, diamond, and decline) for a total of 13 TKD patterns and 150 total pushups.
• Also, before each pattern I did the first 6 moves (all I've been taught thus far) of Eui-Am, the first of our third degree black belt patterns.  I found that this is a good way to learn new patterns - I alternate the new pattern with each of my earlier patterns, ensuring that I do it many times each day.  So, with Eui-Am, I will be doing it (or what I know of it) 13 times each time I do my patterns.  I've found this to be a good technique to more quickly learn new patterns.